{"product_id":"dispute-plan-to-prevent-future-luxury-constitution","title":"Dispute Plan to Prevent Future Luxury Constitution","description":"\u003cp\u003eEqual parts Borges, Burroughs, Baudrillard, and Black Ops, \u003ci\u003eDispute Plan to Prevent Future Luxury Constitution\u003c\/i\u003echarts a treacherous landscape filled with paranoid master plans, failed schemes, and dubious histories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBenjamin H. Bratton’s kaleidoscopic theory-fiction links the utopian fantasies of political violence with the equally utopian programs of security and control. Both rely on all manner of doubles, models, gimmicks, ruses, prototypes, and shock-and-awe campaigns to realize their propagandas of the deed, threat, and image. Blurring reality and delusion, they collaborate on a literally psychotic politics of architecture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe cast of characters in this ensemble drama of righteous desperation and tactical trickery shuttle between fact and speculation, action and script, flesh and symbol, death and philosophy: insect urbanists, seditious masquerades, epistolary ideologues, distant dissimulations, carnivorous installations, forgotten footage, branded revolts, imploding skyscrapers, sentimental memorials, ad-hoc bunkers, sacred hijackings, vampire safe-houses, suburban enclaves, big-time proposals, ambient security protocols, disputed borders-of-convenience, empty research campuses, and robotic surgery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this mosaic we glimpse a future city built with designed violence and the violence of design. As one ratifies the other, the exception becomes the ruler.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Benjamin H. Bratton\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: Sternberg Press\u003cbr\u003e\nPublished: 2015\u003cbr\u003e\nLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 196\u003cbr\u003e\nDimensions: 10.8 x 17.8 cm\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"e-flux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50690430894317,"sku":"ycu1789516182273","price":11.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0816\/2410\/5197\/files\/dispute-plan-to-prevent-future-luxury-constitution_1.jpg?v=1789516187","url":"https:\/\/woolblendclad.shop\/products\/dispute-plan-to-prevent-future-luxury-constitution","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}